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Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love by Hollie McNish

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livsliterarynook's review

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emotional funny informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

emily_tench's review

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challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

bookmadbarlow's review

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challenging funny medium-paced

4.0

Another fabulous selection of poems and musings from Hollie McNish, she never fails to make me question everything and I've tabbed multiple poems to go back to.

hannahlmg's review

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funny lighthearted reflective

5.0

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed Slug - the blend of personal reflections/essays and poetry works brilliantly. Hollie has a very powerful and articulate voice and it is wonderful to spend time feeling luke you're both learning from her and having a chat with her.

I messaged my friends about so, so many parts of this book - from polling our WhatsApp chat on what we were taught to call our vulva to messaging a friend with some absolutely beautiful information about the DNA of a child remaining in the mother's body.

I'm not a mum, so the motherhood elements were ones I could appreciate not powerfully feel, but all the sections that I could powerfully feel were ones that made me sit back and really reflect on my life.

A beautiful and very needed book.